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(*12 *)Jul 21, 2023 17:43 (JST)
Tokyo, July 21 (Jiji Press)– A Japanese panel Friday recommended the society preacher to assign traditional “rakugo” writer Gokaido Kumosuke as well as 11 others as preservers of essential abstract social properties, generally understood as living national treasures.
The suggestions by the Council for Cultural Affairs are anticipated to end up being last as very early as this fall, bringing the complete variety of living national treasures in the nation to 109.
Gokaido, 75, will certainly be the 4th rakugo writer to be marked a living national prize, adhering to Yanagiya Kosan, Katsura Beicho as well as Yanagiya Kosanji.
Gokaido was advertised to “shinuchi,” the greatest ranking in the rakugo globe, in 1981. Best …